San Antonio, Texas, USA

In addition to offering cutting-edge treatment options, the Clinical Pavilion was designed to carry on a signature tradition of UHS: using art, light, and beauty to complement the healing process. To preserve this practice, the Pavilion's architectural team � the San Antonio-based architectural firm Overland Partners and global design and engineering services company RKTL � commissioned San Antonio artist Bill FitzGibbons to create a vibrant exterior lighting installation for the project.

Enter San Antonio Colorline, FitzGibbons's response to the design team's challenge. San Antonio Colorline is a site-specific, dynamic LED light sculpture illuminating the Pavilion's four façades with shifting, saturated colored light, creating a welcoming and visually striking first impression for patients.

FitzGibbons installed ColorReach Powercore long-throw LED floodlights on custom mounting racks that are affixed to the Pavilion's south, east, and west façades on the second-floor level. These fixtures uplight the building's aluminum panel siding, projecting a broad, even wash of color up the building's five highest floors.

The south façade is dominated by a recessed central wall of windows extending from the building's main entrance on the ground floor to the fourth story. FitzGibbons installed racks of ColorBlast Powercore wash lights atop the wall to extend the color wash above the windows. ColorGraze Powercore fixtures mounted on ledges on the building's fifth floor graze the top of the east, north, and west façades with narrow ribbons of color, creating a unified lighting display on all four of the Pavilion's faces.

The installation is controlled by a Light System Manager Ethernet lighting controller, delivering a variety of dynamic color-changing effects to be displayed across multiple fixtures and defined zones. FitzGibbons' signature lighting program is shown daily from dusk until late evening. FitzGibbons also programmed two additional light shows: the Holiday Program, shown during the winter holiday season, and the Shades of Pink Program, shown throughout October to honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month.